MEXICO | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [461]
We spend our final 2 days
in Mexico on the beach, soaking up the magaritas and marvelling in
Rich's new found ability to tan. Finally!
It's all been a bit
bizarre, with the swine flu - empty towns, closed restaurants, and
worried ... Read more >
MEXICO | Sunday, 10 May 2009 | Views [377]
The American couple from
yesterday's dive are back at the dive shop and the four of us will go
out today. The dive instructor is really nice and has gone through
everything with Alicia to help her with her ear problems. He's
suggested a ... Read more >
MEXICO | Saturday, 9 May 2009 | Views [660]
We get up early to move to
a new hotel and prepare for our dive. We've got four more days in
Mexico which gives us plenty of time to complete the last two dives
of our SCUBA course, and then chill out before we leave.
I'm a bit anxious ... Read more >
MEXICO | Friday, 8 May 2009 | Views [448]
Playa del Carmen is a
ghost town. The first day we were here, you could look down the
street and see hundreds of people walking around. Now there are only
handfuls of "brave" tourists. Again this works in our favor
and we are able ... Read more >
MEXICO | Thursday, 7 May 2009 | Views [607]
We leave our luxurious
confines at the all-inclusive resort - we've spent enough time here.
Because of all these tourist-site closures, we've essentially been
restricted to the same area for the past two weeks. Not a bad life,
true - but ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 | Views [616]
So what do you do when
swine flu shuts down all of Mexico? Well you go to the beach. At
least that hasn't been infected yet. But wait, let's think about this
for a second. Tourists are cancelling thier vacations, no-one wants
to come here ... Read more >
MEXICO | Monday, 27 Apr 2009 | Views [699]
The
swine flu crisis is hitting new heights, the news reports that
hundreds of people have died in Mexico City. We've even seen a few
people in the streets wearing masks. Now we're starting to take it
more seriously.
We're now ... Read more >
MEXICO | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [495]
Another windy day and our
final two dives are cancelled. This is really annoying because we'd
already decided that we'd leave the island today regardless of
whether or not we'd finished the course. I guess we'll just have to
complete it ... Read more >
MEXICO | Friday, 24 Apr 2009 | Views [418]
Today we are meant to have our first two open water dives but the weather isnt co-operating and even though it's blue skies, we're told its too windy to SCUBA. What??? It doesn't even look very windy. How does the wind effect us under the water anyway? ... Read more >
MEXICO | Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009 | Views [398]
We've been contemplating the idea of learning to SCUBA dive for a while and we know it's relatively cheap to do in Mexico. So we go speak to a couple of dive shops. We like dive instructor Andreas and his band of merry men the best, so it's a done deal.... Read more >
MEXICO | Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009 | Views [1397]
Time to leave la ciudad de Mexico. We have decided our route around Mexico will start in Cancun, and then we'll make our way back through the various sights before flying out of Mexico City in four weeks time. There's loads to see, including Chichen ... Read more >
MEXICO | Sunday, 19 Apr 2009 | Views [618]
So what's the best time to arrive in one of the world's most dangerous cities? 11.30pm? Probably not, but we like a challenge. Let's just hope the drug cartels got an early night. Our taxi makes its way slowly through the inexplicable midnight traffic, ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Saturday, 18 Apr 2009 | Views [616]
When we get back to the San Jose house, we meet another of Andrea's family; this time her cousin; Pilar. Pilar's boyfriend lives two doors down so we spend the evening with them watching TV and drinking beer. Nice. Tomorrow is Sunday and the whole Familia ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 | Views [609]
We finally pries ourselves away from the Caribbean and head back to San Jose, so we can pick up the keys for a beach house we've been offered on the Pacific coast. Andrea's Grandfather (Andrea being Alicia's brother's girlfriend) Snr Forn and Uncle ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Monday, 13 Apr 2009 | Views [645]
Let's go to the beach. Caribbean or Pacific? Caribbean or Pacific? Errr...Caribbean. There are two places we want to see. One is Cahuita - the first main settling spot for Afro-Caribbeans in Costa Rica, and the other is Puerto Viejo. They're close ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Sunday, 12 Apr 2009 | Views [493]
It's Easter Sunday but it doesn't feel like it - no church, no brunch, no chocolate eggs or jellybeans. So to compensate for what we're missing we go on a Canopy Tour in the morning. Canopy tours are connected zip lines above the rain forest. So ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Saturday, 11 Apr 2009 | Views [370]
Today we head over to Monteverde for forest activities. It's a 3.5 hour, mainly dirt road, drive around Largo Arenal for those of us with a hire car or a 2 hour Jeep-Boat-Jeep ride for everyone else. What do I mean by Jeep-Boat-Jeep? Well take a guess ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Thursday, 9 Apr 2009 | Views [374]
Our next trip is to La Fortuna, which is a small town at the base of Vulcan Arenal. Vulcan Arenal is a very active volcano - so active in fact that at night you can go and see the red lava rocks flowing down its side (during the day they just look ashen ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Tuesday, 7 Apr 2009 | Views [672]
Costa Rica is a land of many volcanoes. Did you know that? We didn't. Everywhere you look on the map, there's Vulcan X, Y & Z. Apparently there's a pretty interesting one not far from San Jose. "Not far from" is of course a stupid term for ... Read more >
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